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Thursday, October 18, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [18 Oct 2012]

18 October 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Google Throws Open Doors To Its Top-Secret Data Center

Steven Levy | Wired | 17 October 2012

Visit to the "beating heart of the digital age". Server farm in North Carolina. "This is what makes Google Google: Thousands of fiber miles, thousands of servers that, in aggregate, add up to the mother of all clouds" Comments

Alpha Centauri And The New Astronomy

Lee Billings | Centauri Dreams | 16 October 2012

After the discovery of a new planet outside our solar system. "Among the planet-hunters, the question is no longer whether life exists elsewhere in the universe, but rather how far removed the next-nearest living world might be" Comments

The Brashness And Bravado In Big Deals

John Kay | John Kay/FT | 17 October 2012

Concise skewering of big mergers. "These commercial decisions often reflect policy-based evidence, not evidence-based policy. Doing the deal is what matters. Justification comes afterwards." But bigger does not equal stronger Comments

God Talk

James Wood | New Yorker | 15 October 2012

The Book of Common Prayer is 350 years old. Mostly written by Thomas Cranmer, who translated and simplified the Sarum Missal. Recognised now as great work of literature. Gave us "moveable feast", "vile body", marriage service Comments

My Son Is Schizophrenic

Paul Gionfriddo | Washington Post | 15 October 2012

Mea culpa from Connecticut legislator. Thirty years ago he backed programmes to clear patients out of mental hospitals, shifting their care to poorly resourced community and school programmes. Bad idea. As his son's life shows Comments

Men Who Fall From Space

Masha Gessen | IHT | 15 October 2012

Before Felix Baumgartner there was Yakov Solodovnik, the first man to parachute from the stratosphere. He jumped from more than 10,000 metres in 1939. Preparations were hasty, equipment unreliable, problems various. But he made it Comments

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